New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-21
SOROSIS OPENS ITS DOORS.
MANY GUESTS AT THE JANUARY DINNER.
SPEECHES, REGULATIONS AND SONGS MAKE THE
EVENING PASS MERELY


SPEECHES, REGULATIONS AND SONGS MAKE THE
EVENING PASS MERELY.
snorosis always sgnazcs Its January dinner by admit
ting each member Of the club having the hight 10
one invitation. Last uight dinner at Demonicos was
consequently larger formal and brilliant than
usual the discussions disappearing and the light VIII ana
merr1ment Of mems dinners coming TO the surface Apou
175 members and their guests hand The french
and American flags which had to be stripped from the
big dining room walls temporarily back again III
fresh color and suggestion The Stars and Stripes hus
above the presidents chair and another nag from the music
balcony. Mrs NJ. L. Thomas presided. Among the others
present were Mr. and Mrs. George Parsons Lahrop MISS
Edith Thomas Mr.. and Mrs Mccaf exJudge Granville
p. Halves and Mrs. Halves, Mr.. and Mrs p. T. Barnum
Mr. and Mrs. shurtlef, Miss Clara Barton Generai
Horace Porter, Mrs Lucy Hooper, Mr.. and Mrs J' NJ
Gregory, Mrs. Jennie Cunningham Croy, DstricAttor
ney and Mrs MARITIME Dr. and Mrs 10 Plonge on, Mr. ana
Mrs. c. f. Wingate. DR.. Hubbard. Miss CoweH, Mr. anu
Mrs. Foster, Miss wadleigh. Miss Ledwh, Mr.. Badger
H. Alien Miss Georgia Cayvan Charles Lord John WINS
low OF Brooklyn; Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs Hester NJ
Poole, and II. t. Kimbal
Mrs Thomas after the last course
had been served to say few worus
OF welcome. soross, she explained, was not reform
club In any sense, except in an educational one IL WIS
merely meeting for the interchange OF thought on
questions of culture and general progress The nfroduc
ton OF sectarian religion. politics or the woman suffrage
question was strictly forbidden The gentlemen had been
asked especially give them change TO see what
a women's dining club was,
Mrs Hester NJ Poole then read brief paper The
Problems OF the Future" In which she maintained that
at the bottom OF all social disturbances
and were able to take honorable part In the move
ments OF the time. MS G. l. studve and Mr.. Powers
then sang
After that General Horace Porter called on. lie
had hoped he said that consldered remarks OF his
own 10 the didactc 6ow Of the evening Ike
hannn az ts dnTar II il dIdnt Sappe to him lie felt
some hcsitaon indeed. about coming nj all RENE
ing the fate OF the first man who ever went 10 woman
dinner Evo had eaten the apple there anu In 10
Adam the Iaugher But he had Jared. as all the
seemed 10 have Jared extremely we'll and be ad %
say TO the waiter who brought him The ices and iut Il.
the iast-what Martin Luther had said at the Diet OF
Morms God help me- can TAKE no oIh 1ea
were infexby opposed TO clubs particularly rs the
had changed since. IL was Cain who raised ihe cruz
then the club raised Cain. Laughter II Worneh
pile up dazzling heaps OF contradictions, they might be
excused the hat woman was made Originally
cmy he The had S%ay Believed in a &
intellectually. In all the ages OF history she was
pie Of distinction Applause Who should descrl pe
mans hest friend and compartment Not the woman Nno
said faith like the fitting beam OF the rain
bow vanishing with the hrst cloud Womans faith was
as prodigal In affection as man was misery. II oliSHe,
n orhnsband TO the gate Of prison without hin.hnS
and laid bridge across the gate OF dra,h hDu az
pausc No description of woman could be happier ana
| tustcr than that famous one thM hno vas
| just corporeal enough 10 attest humanity ana
yet sufficiently Transparent TO let the Divine hsht shihe
| through. Applause .
letter FROM General W. T. Sherman was read He re-
GREETED his absence having engagements for dinner
and the Charity Ball Maurice Bagey gave selection
the piano. after which T. ]. BRrnum called on for
speech lie was introduced as the most widely known
world. suggested That the chairman was
going into the show himself trying TO show up
| the shoWucn Mr. Barnum said that he had made a
speech al the dinner souss aud had regretted
since His stories cered AT In the papers rs
stale This time he told original funny Rocky Noun
| tain story which caught the hou~G amazingly
Mrs Harriet Webb recited The Women or Mumhles
Head" stirrngly Mrs. May Riley Smith and Ella Detl
Clymer read pleasing original verses Mrs Belie toi'
and Miss stutsnan applaudcd loudly for two pleas
Ing songs other speeches made By John Winslow
Miss Clara Barton. OF the Red Cross Society, and Ars
! LIZA Archer or onnor.